Batukeshwar Dutt: A Working Class Revolutionary’s Life
Remembering Batukeshwar Dutt’s revolutionary career, most of which was either spent in jail or hospitals, on his birth anniversary.
Paulo Freire and Popular Struggle in South Africa
On Paulo Freire’s ideas about how to connect learning and teaching among the poor and oppressed with the radical transformation of society, and their influence on peoples’ struggles in South Africa.
On His Birth Anniversary, Remembering What Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Said About Sedition
“Is sedition a name for freedom struggle which is not successful? If that be so, I would fully agree with it.”
Marx, Engels and Metabolic Rift – Part Two
In this part, Mark Walsh explores the impact of the metabolic rift over the 20th century, including how the drive of capitalist forms of agriculture and primary industry have led to species extinction, ecological collapse and the increased outbreaks of deadly epidemics.
Controlling Epidemics? The WHO Had the Answer 40 Years Ago
Today, everyone agrees that the best way to deal with Covid 19 is through comprehensive, equitable, universally accessible health systems. The WHO had proposed this at the Alma Ata International Conference in 1978.
The United States Is Not a Democracy
The United States boasts one of the most farcical democratic systems to have been invented. The country’s constitution is an eighteenth-century relic penned by merchants and slave owners, amendments to which can be blocked by as few as 13 states representing less than 4 percent of the population. Its Supreme Court, conservative by nature and…
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Marxism and Intersectionality
Review of Ashley Bohrer’s book, “Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism”.
Remembering Ashfaqullah Khan – Kakori Martyr, Poet, Dreamer and Revolutionary Intellectual
On his 120th birth anniversary, it is important to emphasise that he wasn’t just a ‘Muslim’ martyr of the Indian freedom struggle but also an evolving ideological thinker reflecting on the larger revolutionary movement.
Toward Delinking: An Alternative Chinese Path Amid the New Cold War
The escalation of the New Cold War offers an opportunity to rethink China’s dependence on an export-orientated economy and speedy financialization.
Revolution in Sudan: Where to Now?
The Sudanese people forced the Transitional Military Council into an uneasy transitional power-sharing agreement in mid-2019. A discussion with Khalid Hassan about the immense achievement of the Sudanese people and the difficult challenges ahead.